Oral Tradition Quotes

13 quotes by 13 authors

Americans, more than any other culture on earth, are cookbook cooks; we learn to make our meals not from any oral tradition, but from a… — John Thorne
A necessary part of our intelligence is on the line as the oral tradition becomes less and less important. There was a time throughout our… — Wes Jackson
I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than… — Saul Williams
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of… — Paule Marshall
Rap comes from the oral tradition. The oral tradition gives voice to those who would've otherwise been voiceless. — Benjamin Zephaniah
There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change.… — Maxine Hong Kingston
Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition. — N. Scott Momaday
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At… — Ishmael Beah
Language pedants hew to an oral tradition of shibboleths that have no basis in logic or style, that have been defied by great writers for… — Steven Pinker
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written â€” heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories… — Angela Carter
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical… — Terri Windling
The blues are important primarily because they contain the cultural expression and the cultural response to blacks in America and to the situation that they… — August Wilson
I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition. — Robert Fitzgerald

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13 authors contributed a total of 13 Oral Tradition Quotes as follows: